ALBUQUERQUE — A tiny fossil thumb bone provides a gripping look at the early evolution of human hands, according to a study presented April 16 at the annual meeting of the American Association of ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

A team of archaeologists say that artifacts found in England push back the earliest known date of hominids making fire some ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

Two million-year-old blood and fat on stone tools found in South Africa are giving clues about what hominids ate and how they lived, says an Australian researcher. Molecular archaeologist, Dr Tom Loy ...

Our earliest ancestors probably behaved in a much more "human" way than most scientists have previously thought, according to a recent study that looked at early hominid fossils from Ethiopia.

Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

New research suggests hominids were building fire by at least one million years ago. Image courtesy of Wikicommons Discussions of fire and human evolution conjure up images of cavemen sitting around a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Billabong Bill the whinger, he wrote the whinger's book. When everything was going well ...

Extinct human cousins may have used some genes differently than modern people do, an analysis of Neandertal and Denisovan DNA reveals. When and how strongly genes are turned on or off plays a big role ...

This article uses insight from social ecology to model the evolution of and changes in the social structures of ancestral hominids during the Plio-Pleistocene. It argues that while changing climates ...

This skull from the Petralona Cave is one of the few hominid fossils found in Greece that date to the Middle Pleistocene. Image courtesy of Wikicommons Greece should be filled with hominid bones and ...